dandelion_lover

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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
As well as Tehnoetic [0]. But unfortunately those phones are not very usable. [0] https://tehnoetic.com/tehnoetic-s3-phone-replicant
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
You can never know for sure, because it is closed source. If it matters for you use free software, such as Firefox.
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-x220/ Upd: this is a 12" laptop. However, they offered Libreboot X400 before, which is 14". You can still get one via https://minifree.org/product&#
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
It looks like research distillers [0] are indeed needed in many fields. [0] http://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/ via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13932806
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The Readability of Scientific Texts Is Decreasing Over Time(biorxiv.org)
2 points by dandelion_lover 10y ago|1 comments
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The 10 most harmful jobs (2015)(80000hours.org)
9 points by dandelion_lover 10y ago|15 comments
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
> there is no open choice I can make at this point that is approachable enough that I can convert people to it. https://meet.jit.si/ works just in the browser. What's the problem?
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
There is also https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
Probably yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
Do you have any examples?
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
There is a corresponding project: http://www.openssd-project.org
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
I use RequestPolicy. It prevents a web-site to call another web-site unless I allow.
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
>Are there any hard sci-fi stories about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
>other than the ones it's expected and advertised to send and the ones that it mistakenly accepted as triggers, at least. >No proof of any kind exists to even begin to suggest it does something other than that. No proof exists to
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
Would you also say it about the NSA before the Snowden leaks? Given our current knowledge about the state of surveillance, we have enough reasons to believe in the worse. Upd: > the behavior would be blatantly obvious to the kind of peop
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
...and proved to work in real life. "If an argument uses valid reasoning, it would not be identified as the slippery slope fallacy,[2] and the term "slippery slope" may be used without an implying faulty argument." http
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
Of course, you have the freedom to make this choice. However > just because they may, at some nebulous point in the future, be used against me in some nebulous way. If and when that happens, we can fight it then. sounds very much like h
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
> Unfortunately no desktop OS seems to be safe What about Qubes OS?
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
Reducing the attack surface is already a good defense, even if you have a smartphone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_%28computing%...
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
PayPal is long known for its fraudulent behavior. Here is a good list of references: https://minifree.org/paypal/
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
Why use hangouts if https://meet.jit.si works in Firefox flawlessly?
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
Unless they are misled...
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
I guess http://yacy.net should work fine.
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
I am surprized no one has mentioned FSF yet. They have a very good list of what is important for the community: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
email: I am a happy user of https://posteo.de; it costs one euro per month phone: I am waiting for https://neo900.org
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
Maybe this is the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
By the way, EFF seeks stories about digital border searches: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/invasive-digital-borde...
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
>print a letter on a laser printer but be careful, just for a case: https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
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by dandelion_lover 10y ago
I found https://prism-break.org a good list of software/services helping our privacy.

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